Comments on: Of course the American public disapproves of Graham-Cassidy

By: Mike K

Mike K — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:23:24 +0000

things get so bad that 34 state legislatures call for an Article 5 Constitutional Convention.

There is growing sentiment in favor. That will really be a catfight.

The problem with Republicans and healthcare is that all they care about is tax policy. In 1995, I was finishing up a masters in health policy at Dartmouth. I had gone back to school to indulge an interest after retiring from medical practice. I was excited by the GOP takeover of Congress. Judd Gregg, then the NH Senator, helped by getting me some interviews in DC. I quickly learned that there was no interest in actually having anyone who had practiced Medicine involved. If the GOP Congress was going to write any health reform legislation, it would be written by tax lawyers. Tom Coburn got elected. I would love to ask him about his experience in DC.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:33:33 +0000

I used to have a more simplistic thinking that the government or military programs would have an easier time operating without Congressional oversight gluing the gears and freezing movement.

Now that I have seen the existence of the One Thousand Hydra alliance of the Left and the power of Lucifer’s Own behind the screen behind the face behind the State, gluing the gears together so that nothing can be productively done, is tactically and strategically looking more viable.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:31:15 +0000

The Senate is more prestigious because while a State may have dozens of reps in the house, they only have two Senators.

That means more gravy and contracts can be skimmed off the top and bottom.

For every vote in the Senate that can be bought, bribed, or blackmailed, 1/100 is its worth. Whereas in the house, it’s worth less.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 01:50:29 +0000

Cant make money if your deluded by false information. while mom and pop kettle arent as sensitive to that, finance is very sensitive to that, and anything that puts out bs ends up gone because people use that to make money choices

By: Irv

Irv — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:52:48 +0000

The real march to the federal government controlling every aspect of our national life started with the 17th amendment that took the election of senators away from state legislatures and gave it to the popular vote. Once the states had lost control of the senate then it became just like the house except with less accountability to the people because of the long terms and the short memory of the populace.

I’m starting to think that the only chance the country has for survival is that things get so bad that 34 state legislatures call for an Article 5 Constitutional Convention. Already 25 states have called for one but things haven’t gotten bad enough for another 9 yet. But if the left keeps pushing then it’s only a matter of time. I just hope they do it before it’s too late to stop a revolution.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:32:52 +0000

Berniecare here we come. Maybe it will work.

I hope that McCain, Collins, Paul, et al donate their brains to science. There is surely something to be learned to explain how a person can campaign as a Republican, get elected as a Republican, then oppose nearly every Republican initiative.

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:45:56 +0000

The virtue signaling of a few senators have cleared the way for single payer.

By: carl in atlanta

carl in atlanta — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:56:02 +0000

I think Dr. Krauthammer was right on the money when he observed that somewhere along the way the American public took the bait offered by the Dems back in 2009, and took it “hook, line and sinker”, as it were. We now assume and accept that all preexisting conditions must be covered; that deductibles and premiums will remain sky-high and that the Feds will stay heavily involved. There is no way to get back to the “status quo ante ACA” and I hate to admit it but I think that we’re doomed to some form of ‘single payer’ system within the next few years. As per the left’s plan all along.

Those with salaried jobs with big entities that still provide ol’ style employer-paid health insurance benefits have absolutely no idea what a disaster this has been for those of us self-employed individuals in Zeke Emmanuel’s “insignificantly small group of only 5 to 7 million Americans”.

Where’s identity politics when ad where it’s really needed?!

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:39:22 +0000

The Left has been incrementally moving the American Republic toward a pure democracy since at least FDR’s election in 1932.

As Alexander Fraser Tytler pointed out in

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy – to be followed by a dictatorship.”

Given the split in the GOP, Obamacare is not going to be repealed. As designed, it will collapse. When it does, the GOP is going to get the blame and, as demographic trends increasingly manifest, the nation will return to the democrats.

Instead of a dictatorship, a totalitarian left is much more likely.

By: Frog

Frog — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:37:42 +0000

“Giving people what they want”?
As in the decline and fall of Rome?
Worked out well, didn’t it?
Somewhere in the distant past these Congressional dudes were supposed to represent us.
Think of it: McCain has a fatal frontal lobe brain tumor and is still voting; Rand Paul would prefer us to be immolated on the blades of his righteousness, and Collins is a total pretend from the state that used to value self-sufficiency but has turned into a very strange place that kinda resembles California…lots of expensive homes and yachts on the coast, a smugness-exuding Portland, and a poverty-stricken inland.